Author: Elon Mark

However, rendered here in Motorola’s Watch app, everything looks fun and easy! Motorola (and Polar, I guess) uses Apple’s “close your rings” approach, with active minutes, steps, and calories. I particularly like that you can now use Polar’s sleep tracking with a cheaper Android watch. Polar takes into account sleep time, solidity (whether or not your sleep was interrupted), and regeneration to give you a Nightly Recharge Status.You can still click through and see your ANS, but there’s a lot more context surrounding it. Also, the graphs are prettier. I compared the sleep, heart rate, and stress measurements to my…

The ARA barge freight market during 26–30 January moved into a clear end-of-month consolidation phase. After the volatility and mid-January tightness seen earlier in the month, this week was characterized by moderating activity, easing freight sentiment, and a gradual unwinding of earlier rate support, particularly for middle distillates. While operational delays continued to occupy operators, fresh demand thinned out, leaving the market increasingly driven by scheduling clean-up rather than new fixing interest. 1. Freight Rates: Stability Early, Followed by Late-Week Softening 26 January: The week opened with largely stable freight rates. Activity was similar to the previous Friday, but charterer…

There is concern that subscribers might be negatively affected if Netflix acquires Warner Bros. Discovery’s streaming and movie studios businesses. One of the biggest fears is that the merger would lead to higher prices due to less competition for Netflix.During a US Senate hearing Tuesday, Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos suggested that the merger would have an opposite effect.Sarandos was speaking at a hearing held by the US Senate Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on Antitrust, Competition Policy, and Consumer Rights, “Examining the Competitive Impact of the Proposed Netflix-Warner Brothers Transaction.”Sarandos aimed to convince the subcommittee that Netflix wouldn’t become a monopoly in…

To ease the financial burden on families and travelers, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman announced a significant reduction in the Tax Collected at Source (TCS) in the Union Budget 2026. The government has lowered the TCS rate from 5% to 2% for foreign remittances made under the Liberalised Remittance Scheme (LRS) for education and medical treatment costs exceeding ₹10 lakh. Additionally, the TCS on overseas tour packages has been reduced from 5% and 20% to 2%, with no minimum threshold. The new TCS rates will come into effect from April 1, 2026 TCS is collected by the authorised dealer or forex…

On a forum with over 5,000 members claiming to be current and former Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers, users vent their frustrations and concerns about the agency as it has become the center of public ire.“I’m all for removing illegals, but snatching dudes off lawn mowers in Cali and leaving the truck and equipment just sitting there? Definitely not working smarter,” wrote one user.The forum contains posts dating back over a decade and describes itself as an “unofficial forum for current Deportation Officers, prospective applicants and retired Deportation Officers to have a platform…

In the US, nearly half of adults are single. A quarter of men suffer from loneliness. Rates of depression are on the rise. And one in four Gen Z adults—the so-called kinkiest generation, according to one study—have never had partnered sex.In an age of endless connection, where hooking up happens with the ease of a swipe and nontraditional relationship structures like polyamory are celebrated, why are people seemingly so disconnected and alone?Chalk it up to changing social norms or shifting generational attitudes around relationships. But the bigger issue at play, according to Justin Garcia, is that we just don’t crave…

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman has delighted non-resident Indians (NRIs) with an array of reforms unveiled in Budget 2026. These initiatives range from enabling direct investment in equity to simplifying real estate transactions, providing significant advantages for the Indian diaspora. Below is a list of all the reforms presented in today’s Budget for NRIs. Budget 2026 opens 10% equity window for individual PROI investors Individual Persons Resident Outside India (PROI) can now invest in equity instruments of listed Indian companies through the Portfolio Investment Scheme. Budget 2026 also proposed to increase the investment limit for an individual PROI under this scheme…

Artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly changing how organizations operate. As a result, AI-native and AI-first companies—built with AI tools and capabilities at their core—are improving productivity and accelerating innovation in ways that create significant value for businesses and customers. Yet, machines have yet to replicate every skill humans have. “The definition that we use is very important,” says Harvard Business School Professor Marco Iansiti in the online course AI Essentials for Business, which he co-teaches with HBS Professor Karim Lakhani. “We don’t think of AI as something that surpasses or even matches human intelligence. We just think of AI as…

But more than anything, the polish of the laptop’s design and the quality of its components are what make it feel on par with Apple. You can get it with either a 13.8- or 15-inch screen size. The smaller model has a slightly larger display than its predecessor (up from 13.5 inches) with thinner bezels and rounder corners. It’s brighter, too, and features a 120-Hz screen refresh rate, giving it an edge over the MacBook Air. Content looks vivid and sharp, even outdoors in broad daylight (but you’ll have to crank it up to about full brightness under direct sunlight).My…

Peter Thiel—the billionaire venture capitalist, PayPal, and Palantir cofounder, and outspoken commentator on all matters relating to the “Antichrist”—appears at least 2,200 times in the latest batch of files released by the Department of Justice related to convicted sex offender and disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein.The tranche of records demonstrate how Epstein managed to cultivate an extensive network of wealthy and influential figures in Silicon Valley. A number of them, including Thiel, continued to interact with Epstein even after his 2008 guilty plea for solicitation of prostitution and of procurement of minors to engage in prostitution.The new files show that Thiel…